I do see that as I get older, the draw of sugar and candy drops, which is ok with me. While trying to be quite aware of how full or hungry I am, and cutting down on milk and bread just about to zero, I try to watch over my mood. If, between hunger and a mood of irritated deprivation, I start thinking the project is too much bother, it seems time for some delicious food.
In college, I had little money and resorted to Jello in warm water for a hot drink I could make myself at a cost I could afford. While in high school and college, needing something to eat, I often ate a rolled leaf or two of lettuce with salt and pepper. I still find raw broccoli florets and radishes very good at assuaging hunger.
Lynn likes a grain cereal in milk for breakfast and relies on Post Wheat 'n Bran most days. Since that cereal is around and I know she has researched for a prepared cereal carefully, I have gotten in the habit of eating a few pieces when I am hungry. It is actually rated "0 grams of sugar" per serving but I think the government allows such a statement if the lab finds .5 grams or less. Whatever the chemists find, I feel an abrupt fall in my hunger level as soon as I swallow some of that cereal.
If I want something that seems delicious, I resort to
- cold water with ice
- a small apple
- cold ripe orange
- 1 square of Lindt dark choc with sea salt
- 1 Lindt truffle
- 90% cocoa Lindt (I like to call it "penance chocolate since it almost feels like a punishment)
- sugared ginger
- small glass of Mogen David blackberry wine,
- toffee (can be homemade quickly and easily with brown sugar and butter in a microwave) - very dangerous for me, since I can't make a really small amount and I have fallen into eating the whole batch immediately. Similarly, with Doritos.
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Bill
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